CarrieK | March 8, 2010
Title: The Creation of Eve
Author: Lynn Cullen
Genre: Historical fiction
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: ARC for TLC Book Tours
First line: In the time it takes to pluck a hen, I have ruined myself.
Thus begins the story of Sofonisba Anguissola, female painter of the Renaissance and student of Maestro Michelangelo. When Sofi gives [...]
CarrieK | March 7, 2010
I didn’t do a February wrap-up for last Sunday’s post because I was hoping to finish two more books that evening, which I did. Here is the final list of books completed in February:
Book started in 2009 but finished in February:
Sailing Alone Around the Room: Poems by Billy Collins
Books started this year and finished in [...]
CarrieK | February 22, 2010
Title: At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
Author: Anne Fadiman
Genre: Essays
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy from my personal library
First line: Just over half a century ago, in “A Gentle Dirge for the Familiar Essay,” a dispirited writer mourned the imminent death of a genre that was “setting to [...]
CarrieK | February 21, 2010
Last week’s Sunday Salon post included a list of recommended books and authors for readers participating in the Ireland Reading Challenge, and I got so many great suggestions in the comments, I thought another post was in order.
~ Sandy recommended Brooklyn by Colm Toibin.
~ Mary recommended McCarthy’s Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland by [...]
CarrieK | February 14, 2010
For those of you participating in the Ireland Reading Challenge, I wanted to give you a list of recommended books that I can personally say are wonderful reads. Here are some of my all-time favorites:
An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor
Ireland: A Novel by Frank Delaney
Trinity by Leon Uris
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
Here are some [...]
CarrieK | February 13, 2010
Author news and links:
~ Presenting Lenore has an interview with Patrick Ness, author of The Knife of Never Letting Go – and you can also enter to win copies of the first two books in the Chaos Walking trilogy.
~ Neil Gaiman will be writing an episode of Doctor Who.
~ Jill at Fizzy Thoughts got to [...]
CarrieK | February 3, 2010
On my last Sunday Salon post, Trisha said that reading challenges are like crack to us book lovers – and I have to agree. Not only am I thoroughly addicted to joining them, but have decided to do my part to keep everyone else addicted, as well.
At the beginning of the year, I was clicking [...]
CarrieK | January 24, 2010
Two new reading challenges were brought to my attention, and I have decided that resistance is futile. I know it may seem like this is just way too many challenges for one person – and they may be – but one of these requires reading poetry, which I’m doing anyway, and the other is too [...]